Artist here. (Although I've been on a break for a bit more than a year.)
Tired of seeing people demonize AI while it's users with bad intents that should really be blamed.
While of course, it's nice to be paid for drawing, I don't think the people who need a quick profile picture for Discord, a forum, or something should be spending 30+ bucks on me if they can't afford it. Same goes for full illustration if the goal is innocent (If you want to quickly turn an idea into a picture, you shouldn't be spending 250+ bucks on an artist.). As an artist, I embrace people's ideas and creativity, and before AI, not everyone had the skill to just turn their ideas into something tangible. I don't want to "gatekeep" a way some people have to share a bit of their mind.
Now, things are a bit different if you want art for stuff that's meant to be important, for example, a reference sheet of your character, or maybe art for a commercial project or important event. This is when you really should consider getting a true artist to work on your ideas. And even then, if you struggle explaining to the artist what you want, well, AI could be good to give them an idea of how you picture things.
Companies trying to replace humans with AI can fuck right off no matter the case.
And people trying to pass AI art as their own creations can fuck off as well.
A last thing, AI for people who already have skills in a specific thing can actually boost productivity quite a lot. While I currently don't do it myself, I've considered using it to turn extra rough sketchs into usable poses/skeletons (keeping-them sketch-like) to then work myself into real art. Of course it isn't as good as doing everything yourself, but it can help gain time and give you a hand (With more or less fingers lol) in aspects of art you struggle with, such as perspective, posing or humanoid proportions.
Just like how people who really want authentic paintings still buy authentic paintings, people wanting or needing authentic digital art will continue to get authentic digital art.